Something Very Strange Is Happening With This Newly Discovered Supermassive Black Hole

4/11/2016

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Astronomers have just spotted one of the biggest black holes ever discovered. What’s even more surprising is its location—and also
the strange reason it got so big. The recently discovered supermassive black
hole tips the scales at more than 17 billion times the size of sun, making it
one of the biggest ever discovered. Supermassive black holes, even of this
size, are not completely strange—the biggest ever spotted is slightly bigger at
21 billion times the size of our sun.

Generally, black holes this big can be found at
the center of a massive galaxy cluster. But this supermassive black hole, was
discovered in a modestly-sized elliptical galaxy, with only a few surrounding
galaxies nearby. It’s a discovery so rare that astronomer Chung-Pei Ma of the University of California-Berkeley equated it to finding a single skyscraper
surrounded by cornfields.

As this is a very unlikely scenario, so
astronomers are coming up with a new theory that might explain not only the
black hole’s size but also how it exist in its current:

This supermassive black hole is essentially two
black holes, which united long, long ago when some two galaxies bumped into
each other. Ultimately, the boundaries of the two black holes were distorted so
much by each other that they combined into one extremely large supermassive
black hole, the full simulation of which you can see is pictured above.

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